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Another view and angle of Portland Head Lighthouse along Maines Coastline.
I had to use several Images and overlay them, People were everywhere around the lighthouse, by taking images when people moved about I was able to clear areas and complete the image without having people everywhere, by overlaying and stacking the images the final image was void of people!
Okay, this was worth the trip. A beautiful sunrise at the Fort Williams Park in Portland, Maine. The park is in Cape Elizabeth (which is really Portland). The major attraction is the Portland Head Light (a lighthouse) but this is the Ram Island Lighthouse (I believe) that sits in the middle of the bay.
Confused yet? Just go. It’s an awesome place. My followers know I’m working on a Photography Park idea. I could use this place as a blueprint. It’s open for sunrise and it's beautiful. There must have been 20 photographers working the place at sunrise (5:21AM) but there are so many angles it never felt crowded.
Nikon D7000 -- Nikon 80-200mm F2.8 ED
170mm
F8@1/320th
(DSC_3247)
©Don Brown 2015
The Portland Vase is one of the finest surviving pieces of Roman glass, and is named after the Dukes of Portland who owned it from 1785 to 1945. It is made of cameo glass, a technique in which vessels and plaques, some free-blown, some cast, are created with two or more layers of glass, and are decorated by carving.
The lower part of the vase originally had another band of decoration, probably showing animals in a rural landscape.
It then tapered to a pointed base which was broken off and repaired with a flat cameo disk in antiquity (the cameo disk, probably depicting Paris, is also in the British Museum).
In 1845 a visitor deliberately smashed the vase, breaking it into over 125 fragments. But within five months the Museum conservator, John Doubleday, had repaired it. His restoration lasted until 1945.
There are many interpretations of the scene. One possibility is that the vase shows the marriage of Peleus and Thetis, whose son Achilles led the Greek armies to Troy.
Probably made in Rome, abt. 15 BCE - 25 CE. Discovered in a funerary monument known as the Monte del Grano, a few miles southeast of the old city wall of Rome.
Formerly in the Barberini and Portland Collections.
British Museum (1945,0927.1)
"Last Friday I lost the love my of life. My soulmate. One of my best friends. She, and her sister Faryn, are the most beautiful things I've have ever known. In everything Fallon did there was an element of giving. She wanted to become a teacher when she grew up. She was going to be a teen leader at High school this year so new people wouldn't feel alone. She wanted to become an outdoor school counselor. She helped start a native garden at Winterhaven school because she just wanted bring the butterflies and birds back. She sewed pillows for the cats at the humane society. If she had money, she spent it on gifts for others. Fallon was a very giving person, especially for someone so young. During these last few days, which have been the darkest of my life, one of the only comforts is how many people are helping. Something Mr. Rogers said keeps coming back to me. He said, “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping'". There has been so many helpers from the beginning. Because of this I can remember there's still good in the world, the type of kindness Fallon gave every day. Thank you to everyone who has come together to make the project."
Fawn
On Friday afternoon at around 4pm there was a horrible crash on SE 43rd and Hawthorne. A driver traveling at around 60mph in the middle turning lane struck a 15 year-old girl crossing the street. The girl who was killed was my daughter's friend's daughter. When someone we know get killed, by accident or any other unnatural way, it brings death closer and provokes deep thoughts about existence and why such things happen.
We can lose everything in a split of a second. We have no guarantees whatsoever, no control either. Things happen, life is cut off and leave the close ones in terrible shock.
I can't even begin to imagine the sorrow the family is going through right now.
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Updating:
Ending weeks of emotional back-and-forth between transportation reform activists, neighbors and the City of Portland; the Bureau of Transportation confirmed with us this morning they plan to install a permanent crosswalk and a median island on Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard at 43rd.
This is the intersection 15-year-old Fallon Smart was walking across on August 19th when a man recklessly and illegally drove his car into her and killed her. It’s also a stretch of Hawthorne that local residents and business owners have complained about for many years; because despite being a bustling main street filled with popular destinations there are no marked crosswalks for eight full blocks (between 41st and 48th).
Just days after Smart was hit the community made a presence at this intersection with their own bodies and a variety of objects. They had one goal: Slow people down so that a tragedy like this never happens again. The intersection became filled with a mix of memorial items like flowers, signs and photos; and guerrilla traffic-calming devices like a orange traffic cones and an unsanctioned crosswalk. The center turn lane used by Abdulrahman Noorah to speed passed someone who had stopped to let Smart cross was effectively closed.
“”It has taken time and unfortunately a terrible tragedy happened in that time, but the action they plan to take now will save lives in the future.”
— Katherine White, works at a nearby business
After about a month had passed and the city felt Smart’s family and the community had time to grieve, they decided to clear the intersection and re-open the center turn lane. Sources we spoke to from the Sunnyside Neighborhood Association said the City received complaints from some Hawthorne Blvd users that the unsanctioned closure and objects were making the road unsafe.
PBOT’s plans did not sit well with people who are tired of the speeding and dangerous driving on Hawthorne — especially in a city that has committed to Vision Zero and has a Livable Streets Strategy that aims to make public roads more than just places to speed through in cars.
We published a letter from an employee of a nearby business who implored the city to keep the memorial up until a permanent solution could be installed. “The memorial is making a difference,” wrote Katherine White of One With Heart, a martial arts studio. “Cars are no longer racing down the street at 40 miles an hour… Isn’t it sometimes worthwhile to let go of policy and procedure, to step outside the bureaucratic road blocks and just do the right thing?”
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Drove into Portland after work ( December 3rd '08) to try and get a sunset shot of the city skyline.
I've shot in this area a couple of other times but it was early early morning on both occasions.
This was the last shot of the night!!
I photographed Erika Nielson in a Kimono for her Hatachi portraits this past week. We shot at the Hoyt Arboretum in Portland and had a great time! I just loved the way the reds in her Kimono contrasted with the greenery in the forest. So pretty!
Lots more on my blog - like always!
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Styling and Kimono by Toshimi Tanaka.
David Hockney (1938 –)
2021
iPad painting printed on paper,
ed. 14/25
Published by David Hockney, Inc.,
Los Angeles
Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer
Portland Art Museum
In spring and summer 2026, the Portland Art Museum presents David Hockney: Works from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, celebrating one of the most influential artists of our time. The vibrant exhibition, on view February 14 – July 26, 2026, is the largest North American survey exhibition of Hockney’s work, with more than 200 colorful prints, collages, video, and photographic and iPad drawings spanning six decades of the artist’s career.
Best known for vivid scenes that highlight his passion for both the natural world and human connection, visitors will experience a stunning array of dimensions and media that underscore Hockney’s innovative experiments. Included are his iconic subjects and series—California swimming pools, the monumental Yosemite, and British landscapes in full bloom, as well as intimate portrayals of friends, family, and queer desire.
“Hockney’s colorful, fresh perspectives encourage us to reconsider everyday objects, faces, and places of our rapidly changing contemporary world in whimsical new ways,” said Catherine Whitney, Honolulu Museum of Art Director of Curatorial Affairs and exhibition consulting curator.
Highlighting some of Hockney’s most celebrated pieces, David Hockney: Works from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation sheds light on the artist’s process, driven by his fascination with technology as a channel for both artistic creation and human connection. In a pursuit to better understand how artists translate visual perception, Hockney has explored historical modes of representation, including the expansive spaces of traditional Chinese scrolls, the condensed dimensionality of Cubism, and the linear perspective of the Italian Renaissance, as well as optical devices like mirrors and the camera obscura. He also takes inspiration from the continual advancement of modern technology to evolve his approach and visual vocabulary, utilizing tools such as copy machines, photo editing software, iPhones, and iPads.
“To many, David Hockney is the most important artist working today. His images take us on a journey through country roads and gardens and let us view his exploration of perspective. More than any other artist, he has used technology to create art,” said ARTnews Top 200 Collector Jordan Schnitzer. “Whether it was Xerox prints, Polaroid photographs, or on the iPad, Hockney’s eye and hand create some of the most intriguing and beautiful art ever made!”
Hockney’s ability to engage deeply with an ever-changing world invites viewers to reconsider ideas of relationships versus solitude, spectacle versus reality, and tradition versus technology. A highlight of the exhibition is a 2014 photographic series that demonstrates an innovative approach involving “reversed perspective,” in which the spectator’s view is tightly focused on the foreground of an image, rather than upon a far-off vanishing point. Multiple angles and equally sharp viewpoints converge simultaneously to visually simulate the experience of moving through space and time.
“We are pleased to be partnering with Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation on this impressive exhibition of David Hockney’s work,” said Portland Art Museum Director Brian Ferriso. “We are excited for visitors to experience the artist’s vibrant style, subject matter, and perspective shifts in the newly renovated and expanded museum.”
Organized by Catherine Whitney, Honolulu Museum of Art Director of Curatorial Affairs.
Taken just round the corner from Portland Bill.
Canon 17-40mm lens at 33mm - 30 sec @ f/8 Lee 0.6 hard grad
As always, much better on Black!
Portland developed a reputation early on in its history as a hard-edged and gritty port town. Some historians have described the city's early establishment as being a "scion of New England; an ends-of-the-earth home for the exiled spawn of the eastern established elite." In 1889, The Oregonian called Portland "the most filthy city in the Northern States," due to the unsanitary sewers and gutters, and, at the turn of the 20th century, it was considered one of the most dangerous port cities in the world.
Portland and Western's Oregon Electric Express trundles south towards it's destination of Albany, OR through the Ankeny National Wildlife Refuge.
As Portland's largest and most recent lighthouse, the Trinity House operated Portland Bill Lighthouse is distinctively white and red striped, standing at a height of 41 metres (135 ft). The tower is approximately 114 feet. The lighthouse was completed by 1906 and first shone out on 11 January 1906. Portland Bill Lighthouse guides passing vessels through these hazardous waters as well as acting as a waymark for ships navigating the English Channel.
Went down to Portland today to photograph the famous Portland Bill. This is a blended exposure for sea and sky, using a 10 stop B+W ND filter to get the effect; see below.
Exif
Sky 190 second exposure, F/18, ISO 100.
Sea and Rocks 1.6 second exposure, F/6.3, ISO 1600.
© Rick DeCosta Photography 2010
A Winter sunset at the Portland Headlight Lighthouse in Portland, Maine.